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Dutton, Henry

educator, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, governor, author, was born Feb. 12, 1796, in Plymouth, Conn.

He was attorney for the state, professor of law in Yale college; and served five years in the legislature and one year in the state senate. He was elected governor of Connecticut in 1854; from 1861 to 1866 was judge of the superior court, and of the supreme court of errors. He died April 12, 1869, in New Haven, Conn.

DUTTON, HENRY WORTHINGTON, journalist, was born April 17, 1796, in Lebanon, Conn. For twenty-five years the firm of Dutton and Wentworth in Boston, Mass., had been state printers, the contract terminating in 1852. He died April 15, 1875, in Boston, Mass.

DUTTON, SAMUEL WILLIAM SOUTH- MAYD, clergyman, author, was born March 14, 1814, in Guilford, Conn. In 1843 upon the establishment of the New Englander, he became one of the associate editors. He published various addresses, and a History of the North Church during the Last Century. He died Jan. 26, 1866, in Milbury, Mass.

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